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TIL lobsters are “biologically immortal”

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Rnxj TIL: Platypus DNA contains reptilian, avian, and mammalian lineages.
OoMDg TIL that a University of Clemson student conducted an experiment in identifying ways to help turtles successfully cross roads. He placed a fake turtle in a road to observe driver behavior and disturbingly found that six percent of people deliberately went out of their way to hit the turtle.
P1JrZ TIL about Humus Sapien, created by Michael Barreiro that won a contest to have a fan-submitted character become a Marvel character in FOOM, the official Marvel fanzine, in 1973, and was eventually officially published in a Marvel comic-in 2001.
yQyMw TIL about "A True Story", the first sci-fi novel written by a Greek-speaking Syrian in the 2nd century AD. This satire is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare.
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